The ''UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy'' is a student-run
law review published at the
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
The UCLA School of Law is one of 12 professional schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. UCLA Law has been consistently ranked by '' U.S. News & World Report'' as one of the top 20 law schools in the United States since the inceptio ...
. The journal primarily publishes articles and comments discussing
environmental law and policy and related subjects.
Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
(Accessed July 3, 2015).
Overview
The journal was established in 1980 with the goal of confronting "those environmental problems which are currently before the public, and to provide a variety of opinions and suggested solutions to the problems." Between 1980 and 1982, each issue of the journal would include a collection of articles focused on a single topic or theme.
[Wendy Stockton & Roger L. Kohn, ''Forward'', 3 vii (1982-1983).] Beginning with the third volume in the fall of 1982, the journal began including articles on a range of different topics in each individual issue.
[ The journal also collaborates with the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment to host environmental law symposia.][
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Impact
In 2016, Washington and Lee University's Law Journal Rankings placed the journal among the top ten environmental, natural resources, and land use law journals with the highest impact factor. Articles in the journal have been cited by several state supreme courts as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Articles also appear in treatises written by ''American Law Reports
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'' and '' American Jurisprudence''.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted or indexed in EBSCO databases
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, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw,
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Periodicals Indexed in CLIP
Ingenta
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,[ and the journal posts past issues on its website.][
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See also
* List of law journals
* List of environmental law journals
References
External links
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American law journals
Publications established in 1980
English-language journals
Biannual journals
Environmental law journals
Law journals edited by students